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Two years after an initial joint venture, KeyShot is now available as a fully integrated rendering option. The popular 3D sculpting tool ZBrush now offers the option of using KeyShot as a fully integrated rendering solution. The combination is possible with the current release of ZBrush (Version 4 Release 7), and two new purchases of […]

The popular cross-platform ray-tracing engine can now work with the Houdini 3D animation engine. Setups can be shared with the Maya and Softimage editions of Arnold. Users of the cross-platform renderer Arnold now have a new choice of animation engines. New Arnold for Houdini from Solid Angle brings the powerful non-biased photorealistic rendering solution used […]

The high-end 3D/3D tool fuses animation with compositing and 3D rendering, allowing artists to work with full effects on all the time. Every year at Siggraph there are one or two products that cause people to say to one another, “Have you see ____?” This year in Vancouver one of those products was Clarisse iFX […]

The 90-minute show “Real-Time Live!” is part of the annual Computer Animation Festival. Demonstrations include real-time rendering of fire and cartoon character faces from human actor input. Advancements in real-time rendering for games and animation will be presented at Siggraph 2014 during the annual Real-Time Live! session. The 90-minute show is part of the annual […]

This update of the popular rendering engine for CAD users also tweaked the interface for ease of use and increased speed throughout the product. Luxion has released a new version of KeyShot, its popular rendering and product development visualization software. KeyShot 5 features the ability to directly render NURBS-based geometry without need of an intermediary […]

The Montreal-based cloud rendering company has been making friends in varied places. There’s a fierce arms race going on in the cloud, where companies seek out territory in building 3D tools for use in the cloud. It really is the next frontier, or maybe the better term is gold rush. So many companies are building […]

RTT builds out its line of visualization products and services with the addition of Bunkspeed’s renderer. For its part, Bunkspeed finds a stable parent to help the company grow into new business models. RTT, the German based visualization firm has announced the acquisition of rendering company Bunkspeed, Inc. RTT says the addition of Bunkspeed will […]

Most of the changes are under the hood. Both the free and commercial versions are available. Next Limit has completely updated its SketchUp plug-in for Maxwell Render for full compatibility with SketchUp 2013. The new plugin releases are for both the Maxwell Render Suite and Maxwell for SketchUp packages, and are free of charge to all customers and […]

The Australian visualization group also now controls the destiny of RealityServer and iRay. Migenius and its SketchUp add-in Bloom Unit first came on the scene at Nvidia’s GTC conference in 2012, showing off interactive real-time photo-realistic rendering inside SketchUp, then viewable in any device. In 2012 they said shipping was imminent, but one thing led […]